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'The Rape of Nanking' author is found dead
San Jose Mercury News ^
| Nov. 11, 04
| By Jessie Mangaliman, Cecilia Kang and Chuck Carroll
Posted on 11/11/2004 12:38:11 PM PST by EggsAckley
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Iris Chang
To: NormsRevenge; martin_fierro
To: EggsAckley
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posted on
11/11/2004 12:39:36 PM PST
by
wideawake
(God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
To: EggsAckley
The poor dear. I've read "The Rape of Nanking." I think the research she did would make anyone depressed.
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posted on
11/11/2004 12:39:45 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(First we had all the money, then we got all the votes, now we have all the fun!)
To: EggsAckley
That is too bad. Chang was good for the history profession.
To: EggsAckley
Oh no! My husband loved her books. My thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends.
What a shame.
To: EggsAckley
She left behind a husband and a two-year-old.
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posted on
11/11/2004 12:40:22 PM PST
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Your Friendly Freeper Patent Attorney)
To: EggsAckley
Pretty woman.
Probably a contract. Japanese old-timers settling a score.
May she R.I.P.
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posted on
11/11/2004 12:40:50 PM PST
by
Finalapproach29er
(You can drive from coast to coast and never pass through a single county won by Kerry.)
To: SAMWolf; snippy_about_it
WW2 history researcher commits suicide. Foxhole ping?
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posted on
11/11/2004 12:40:51 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(First we had all the money, then we got all the votes, now we have all the fun!)
To: wideawake
To: EggsAckley
I read the Nanking book. Ugly disgusting subject, but she did good work. Sorry to hear this.
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posted on
11/11/2004 12:41:39 PM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: EggsAckley
Sad.
I saw her picture on the cover of World Journal this morning and wasn't sure who it was.
I read her books, except the most recent Chinese in America book. She covered important territory, but got more liberal in her perspective and therefore lost objectivity.
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posted on
11/11/2004 12:41:42 PM PST
by
tallhappy
(Juntos Podemos!)
To: Tax-chick
Yes, an excellent book, but extremely depressing. My heart goes out to her family.
To: Tax-chick
I've also read it. That is so true.
To: Finalapproach29er
I agree. It is not in the chinese gene to have the "whoa is me" syndrome. I'm guessing it was a hit job
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posted on
11/11/2004 12:44:42 PM PST
by
pissant
To: pissant
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posted on
11/11/2004 12:45:27 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(First we had all the money, then we got all the votes, now we have all the fun!)
To: EggsAckley
She was killed. Do the math.
To: bushisdamanin04
I didn't realize she was so young. How sad for all her family and friends.
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posted on
11/11/2004 12:46:33 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(First we had all the money, then we got all the votes, now we have all the fun!)
To: tallhappy
Sad story. However, I hope the kneejerk inclination to lionize her as an historian can be resisted. I read
The Rape of Nanking because I had heard such great reviews. As the work progressed, I definitely felt she had invested a little too much emotion in her writing. It started coming off as if the Chinese (historically) were pure as the driven snow while the Japanese had zero redeeming qualities as a people.
To be sure, researching such a topic can bend your thinking. But, as a rookie to that particular subject, I could have done without her rooting interest.
All this said, Ambrose said she was the "best we have", and I respect his opinion greatly.
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posted on
11/11/2004 12:48:57 PM PST
by
Mr. Bird
To: pissant
It is not in the chinese gene to have the "whoa is me" syndrome. I'm guessing it was a hit job Not true. Woe is me is the entire 20th century Chinese worldview. It is taught to this day to Chinese in China. It's all about opium wars and 200 years of humiliation etc...
Chang, who was American, came to identify and spout the woe is me dogma more and more. Her most recent book about Chinese in America was a total woe is me book. It was all about Chinese being discriminated against in America. It was dull and not comprehensive.
Liberalism is a mental disease and it is too bad. I saw her work and potential and was so disapointed to see her fall in to the typical lefty liberal view of oppressed minority eternal victim mind set in her writing.
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posted on
11/11/2004 12:50:57 PM PST
by
tallhappy
(Juntos Podemos!)
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